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Journal articles on the topic "Case studies in cultural anthropology"

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Lipka, Jerry, Maureen P. Hogan, Joan Parker Webster, Evelyn Yanez, Barbara Adams, Stacy Clark, and Doreen Lacy. "Math in a Cultural Context: Two Case Studies of a Successful Culturally Based Math Project." Anthropology Education Quarterly 36, no. 4 (December 2005): 367–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aeq.2005.36.4.367.

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Sahay, K. N. "Feature films and visual anthropology: India—a case study." Visual Anthropology 1, no. 2 (June 1988): 171–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08949468.1988.9966469.

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Jacobs, Jordan, and Benjamin W. Porter. "Repatriation in university museum collections: Case studies from the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology." International Journal of Cultural Property 28, no. 4 (November 2021): 531–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0940739121000400.

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AbstractUniversity-based anthropology museums are uniquely positioned to pursue nuanced decisions concerning the disposition of collections in their care, setting best practice for the field. The authors describe a three-staged approach to repatriations that they led during their concurrent service as head of cultural policy and repatriation (Jordan Jacobs) and director (Benjamin Porter) of the University of California, Berkeley’s Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology between 2015 and 2019. Examples involving human remains and cultural objects from Australia, Canada, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Saipan, Senegal, Vanuatu, Venezuela, and South Carolina in the United States demonstrate the benefits of transparency, open communication, and rigorous investigation of provenance and provenience, which may or may not lead to transfer based on the criteria and priorities of potential recipients. This article also provides a history of the Hearst Museum’s Cultural Policy and Repatriation division, which was disbanded in 2021.
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DuBois, Thomas A. "Trends in Contemporary Research on Shamanism." Numen 58, no. 1 (2011): 100–128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852710x514339-2.

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Recent research on the topic of shamanism is reviewed and discussed. Included are works appearing since the early 1990s in the fields of anthropology, religious studies, archaeology, cognitive sciences, ethnomusicology, medical anthropology, art history, and ethnobotany. The survey demonstrates a continued strong interest in specific ethnographic case studies focusing on communities which make use of shamanic practices. Shamanic traditions are increasingly studied within their historical and political contexts, with strong attention to issues of research ideology. New trends in the study of cultural revitalization, neoshamanism, archaeology, gender, the history of anthropology, and the cognitive study of religion are highlighted.
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Wulff, Helena. "Coda." Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 31, no. 2 (September 1, 2022): v—x. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2022.310201.

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Celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the first publication of the volume Anthropology and Autobiography (1992) edited by Judith Okely and Helen Callaway, AJEC 31(1) features an inspiring special issue devoted to this topic, then and now. Starting from the beginning, we learn about the appalling resistance Judith Okely faced when she suggested Anthropology and Autobiography as a theme for the 1989 ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK) Conference. The idea to include the experience of the fieldworker, his or her emotional reactions, and issues related to gender, age and race – in the research and later even the use of “I” in the writing – came from the ‘writing culture’ movement in the United States. This early resistance against reflexivity and autobiography in British anthropology can be understood as a generational intolerance of American intellectual influence. As Ernest Gellner (1988: 26) suggested in a review of Clifford Geertz’ Works and Lives: My own advice to anthropology departments is that this volume be kept in a locked cupboard, with the key in the possession of the head of department, and that students be lent it only when a strong case is made out by their tutors.
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Ballard, Linda-May. "Curating Intangible Cultural Heritage." Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 17, no. 1 (March 1, 2008): 74–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2008.01701005.

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This article discusses a range of pragmatic issues associated with curating intangible cultural heritage, including collection, preservation, interpretation, presentation and representation. It uses as a case study work undertaken with Lough Neagh eel fishermen in preparation for and at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 2007, setting this in a much wider curatorial context.
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Wright, Handel Kashope. "Cultural studies as praxis: (making) an autobiographical case." Cultural Studies 17, no. 6 (November 2003): 805–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950238032000150039.

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Jacobs, Nancy, Manzungu Emmanuel, and Pieter van der Zaag. "The Practice of Smallholder Irrigation: Case Studies from Zimbabwe." African Studies Review 41, no. 2 (September 1998): 151. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/524836.

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Zeff, Eleanor E., Kempe Ronald Hope, and Bornwell C. Chikulo. "Corruption and Development in Africa: Lessons from Case Studies." African Studies Review 44, no. 3 (December 2001): 101. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/525608.

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Dao, Anh Thang. "The Tree Workers Case." Visual Anthropology 27, no. 1-2 (December 19, 2013): 207–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2014.852946.

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Miksa, Elizabeth J. "A model for assigning temper provenance to archaeological ceramics with case studies from the American Southwest." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288805.

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Well-designed provenance studies form the basis from which questions of human economy and behavior are addressed. Pottery is often the subject of such studies, requiring geological and archaeological evidence to establish patterns of ceramic economy. A generalized theoretical and methodological framework for provenance studies is presented, followed by specific considerations for ceramic provenance studies. Four main sources of variation affect pottery composition: geological distribution of resources, geological resource variability, differential economic factors affecting resource use, and technological manipulation of materials. Post depositional alteration is also considered. This ceramic provenance model provides explicit guidelines for the assessment of geological aspects of provenance, since geological resource availability affects acquisition by humans and thus archaeological research designs, in which interdependent geological and archaeological scalar factors must be balanced against budgets. Two case studies illustrate the model. The first is of sand-tempered pottery from the Tonto Basin, Arizona, where the bedrock geology is highly variable giving rise to geographically unique sands. Zones with similar sand compositions are modeled using actualistic petrofacies, the Gazzi-Dickinson point-counting technique, and multivariate statistics. Methods used to create a petrofacies model are detailed, as is the model's application to sand tempered utilitarian sherds from three Tonto Basin project areas. Data analysis reveals strong temporal and spatial ceramic production and consumption patterns. The second is of crushed-schist-tempered Hohokam pottery. Crushed schist was often used to temper pre-Classic Hohokam plain ware pottery in central Arizona's middle Gila River valley. Systematic investigation of rocks from the Pinal Schist terrane in the middle Gila River valley was conducted to assess how many sources were exploited prehistorically, and whether schist or schist-tempered pottery were exchanged. Chemical analysis shows that the sources can be statistically discriminated from one another. Schist source data were compared to schist extracted from plain ware sherds and to unmodified pieces of schist recovered from two archaeological sites. Preliminary indications are that schist was derived from several sources. This model provides a flexible, archaeologically relevant framework for assessing temper provenance. Hopefully, archaeologists and petrologists alike will use it to define ceramic provenance research problems and communicate effective solutions to one another.
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Majid, Asif. "The symbiotic embeddedness of theatre and conflict| A metaphor-inspired quartet of case studies." Thesis, Georgetown University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1586921.

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This study seeks to demonstrate connections between theatre and conflict, as inspired by metaphor and embodied by case studies of four theatrical organizations working in conflict zones: The Freedom Theatre in Palestine, Ajoka Theatre in Pakistan, DAH Teater in Serbia, and Belarus Free Theatre in Belarus. In so doing, it attempts to name the overlaps and relationships as sub-concepts that exist as connective tissue between conflict and theatre, writ large. These sub-concepts - subverting to play, imagining hidden histories, embodying the unspeakable, and blurring illusion and reality - offer a taxonomy of various dimensions of the theatre-conflict relationship. This taxonomy explores the symbiotic embeddedness of theatre and conflict as a possible explanation for the existence of theatrical organizations in conflict zones.

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Myers, Abigail Ann 1957. "Domestic water considerations within large irrigation and resettlement projects: A case study in Sri Lanka." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/277897.

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Domestic water supply, utilization and management were characterized within the Mahaweli Development Scheme in Sri Lanka. Domestic water in a Mahaweli-developed village was compared to that in an ancient village. Domestic water supply and quality were linked to irrigation supply and local hydrogeology. Taste, flow and accessibility determined water utilization. Hydrogeology in the ancient village provided a better domestic water situation. Agency-provided wells often went unused in the new village because of poor quality and unavailability of groundwater. Surface-water sources were likewise less reliable in the new village. Consequences of poor siting included increased workloads and health risks for domestic water users. Domestic water considerations that must be incorporated in irrigation/resettlement planning are presented. Simple hydrologic investigations utilization of local knowledge and participation can assist planners and managers to provide villagers with safe and acceptable domestic water.
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Boyd, Morag E. "Amazight identity in the post colonial Moroccan state: a case study in ethnicity." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1348144390.

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Fiorillo, Patricia. "The impact of Native American activism and the media on museum exhibitions of indigenous peoples| Two case studies." Thesis, Florida Atlantic University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10154926.

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This thesis is a critical study of two exhibits, First Encounters Spanish Exploration in the Caribbean and A Tribute to Survival. The objective of the thesis was to understand if and how indigenous activists, using the media as tool, were able to change curatorial approaches to exhibition development. Chapter 1 is broken into three sections. The first section introduces the exhibits and succinctly discusses the theory that is applied to this thesis. The second section discusses the objectives of the project and the third provides a brief outline of the document. Chapter 2 discusses the historical background of American museums in an attempt to highlight changes in curatorial attitudes towards the public, display, interpretation, and authority. Chapter 3 gives a more in-depth overview of the methodology and materials utilized in the thesis. Chapter 4 is a critical analysis of the literature for both First Encounters and A Tribute to Survival. Chapter five is a summary of the thesis and offers a conclusion of the effectiveness of using the media as a tool.

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Seng, Sophea. "The Soriya Band| A Case Study of Cambodian American Rock Music in Southern California." Thesis, University of California, Riverside, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10153682.

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Following the 1975-1979 genocide, Cambodian exiles in the U.S. recreated cultural institutions through music. Music remains significant in rebuilding cultural life in diasporic Cambodian communities. Live bands perform contemporary and classic ballads during Cambodian New Year in April, at wedding parties and in restaurants on weekend nights. Live rock bands continue to dot community celebrations as survivors collectively create musical repertoires and schedule practices to perform at festive community events. Despite the ubiquity of live musical performance in Cambodian communities, this aspect of Cambodian American cultural formation has been scarcely addressed in the literature. This Thesis addresses the deficiency in the literature through ethnographic fieldwork with a Southern California rock band called the Soriya Band, comprised of three guitarists, a keyboardist, a drummer and two vocalists who are all first generation Cambodian survivors. Music persists as a vehicle for cultural creation and change for Cambodian American refugee-survivors.

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Owens, Dorothea Jody. "Nature's Classroom: An Ethnographic Case Study of Environmental Education." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4192.

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NATURE'S CLASSROOM: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC CASE STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION DOROTHEA JODY OWENS ABSTRACT This ethnographic case study examines the dynamic relationship between culture and environmental education within the context of a specific Florida-based public education program. The School District of Hillsborough County (SDHC) offers the program through a three-day field trip to the study site, Nature's Classroom, and accompanying classroom curriculum. The site is located in Thonotosassa on the Hillsborough River, and serves approximately 13,500 to 15,000 sixth grade students annually. The key purpose of the research was to explore public education in a local setting as a vehicle for the transfer and acquisition of cultural knowledge, values, beliefs, and attitudes related to the environment. My primary research question is as follows: What role do American cultural values play in the public education system, as demonstrated in environmental education at Nature's Classroom? Factors that guided data collection include the sociocultural and historical context, the field site itself, curriculum development and content, delivery of the curriculum to students, student outcomes, and additional or external factors that could potentially influence outcomes. This dissertation explores the six factors using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods for data collection and analysis. Methods include participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and archival document reviews. Results indicate that environmental education at this site has evolved in tandem with broader sociocultural trends in environmentalism, anthropology, and environmental education. Students show positive gains in knowledge and skills related to the environment.
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Stein, Nancy Carol. "Using the visual to "see" absence| The case of Thessaloniki." Thesis, Florida Atlantic University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3571437.

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Thessaloniki, a city with an Ottoman, Byzantine, and Sephardic past, is located in the Balkan area of Macedonia, in northern Greece. Its history is the story of people who have come from someplace else. For several hundred years, the majority population of the city was comprised of Spanish speaking Sephardic Jews who contributed to all aspects of the development of the city. This significant presence is no longer visible unless one specifically knows where to look for its traces. It is not a history that has been silenced or erased, but rather obliterated. In this dissertation, I present the documented presence and transformations of the Jewish population in Thessaloniki from the earliest contributions to present day. This work on absence uses visual anthropology to explore the present day urban environment through an ethnographic account of the city of Thessaloniki. The visual is used to investigate how cities present their past and how people learn to see the world, what reflects their world vision, and the ways their vision is socially and culturally influenced. Anthropology is concerned with material artifacts that act as representatives of the past and as visual symbols. This is a work about what happens when intentionally omitted histories remain absent from the public sphere. What remains physically present but unrepresented proves equally important in creating and reinforcing memory. Our relationship to our environment also may be compromised by what is absent. This project examines absence through the circumstances by which the past is represented in the present, and looks at how the past is experienced in ways that may be used to invoke, challenge, or re-direct the way a community is remembered.

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Levine, Nadejda. "Wild Animals and Domesticated Landscapes: A Case Study of Human-Animal Relationships in the Middle and Late Woodland Coastal Plain of Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626531.

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Soberon, Sophia Elena. "Integrating a Neighborhood Approach in a Community-based Organization| A Case Study of the Cambodian Family." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10839719.

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Community-based organizations (CBOs) represent an important segment of public services vital to the stability of invisible communities that otherwise remain vulnerable. Drawing from over three years of ethnographic fieldwork in a CBO in Santa Ana, California, I undertake an extensive case-study that examines their survival in a hostile funding environment by means of understanding their development, organizational learning and adaptation, social capital and networking and use of innovative sustainability strategies. The struggles this CBO encountered in their pursuit of sustainability speak to their unique aspects of service provision and community development making them an indispensable support structure for low-income immigrant and refugee communities.

I argue that their story of success reveals key principles, tenets and preliminary takeaways that may be useful toward improving the sustainability of organizational frameworks within other CBOs. Additionally, I explore how this CBO struggles to defend its vision of social change against existing conditions within the market environment that impact their success.

With growing interest toward scholarly work in this field, I emphasize the need to approach organizational fieldwork analytically as we engage with and try to understand the complicated social worlds of CBOs. The applied portion of this project resulted in the creation of promotional materials that may be useful toward fund development and historical preservation.

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Books on the topic "Case studies in cultural anthropology"

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Peters-Golden, Holly. Culture sketches: Case studies in anthropology. 3rd ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002.

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1959-, Pole Christopher J., and Burgess Robert G, eds. Cross-cultural case study. Amsterdam: JAI, 2000.

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Mimi, Nichter, ed. Anthropology and international health: Asian case studies. 2nd ed. Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach, 1996.

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Nichter, Mark. Anthropology and international health: South Asian case studies. 2nd ed. Australia: Gordon and Breach, 1996.

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Catlin, Linda B. International business: Cultural sourcebook and case studies. Cincinnati, Ohio: South-Western Pub. Co., 1994.

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A, Rabey Mario, Abdala Carolina, and Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Educación., eds. El Aula como sistema cultural: Seis etnografías en Tucumán. Tucumán: Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Educación, 1994.

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O'Meara, J. Tim. Samoan Planters: Tradition and Economic Development in Polynesia (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology). Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1990.

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Bose, Purnima. Cultural critique and the global corporation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.

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1962-, Bose Purnima, and Lyons Laura E. 1963-, eds. Cultural critique and the global corporation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.

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1962-, Bose Purnima, and Lyons Laura E. 1963-, eds. Cultural critique and the global corporation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.

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Book chapters on the topic "Case studies in cultural anthropology"

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Sjölander-Lindqvist, Annelie. "Arsenic Fields: Community Understandings of Risk, Place, and Landscape." In Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability, 55–77. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78040-1_3.

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AbstractThis is a study of the communication of environmental risk associated with the planned removal of arsenic from the copper mining fields in Riddarhyttan, central Sweden. The study was implemented using in-depth interviews with community residents and representatives from the local, regional, and national governments, as well as walk-and-talk sessions near contaminated grounds to learn about the value of these places to local people and their reflections on risk. The study identified how local residents had to navigate between messages from authorities that touching stones could be life threatening at the same time as they were told that risk was non-existent. This resulted in mixed and affective feelings regarding place, community, and the role the copper industry had played in the past. The case is an illuminating example of how perception and communication is embedded in the social and cultural reality of local communities.
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Burch, Sarah. "Cultural studies and anthropology." In Health Studies, 228–64. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-34868-5_8.

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Burch, Sarah. "Cultural Studies and Social Anthropology." In Health Studies, 393–423. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2149-9_13.

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Sar Shalom, Aviad, Yuval Peled, Rachel Singer, Irit Amit-Cohen, Rafi Rich, Avraham Sasson, and Elissa Rosenberg. "Case Studies." In Cultural Landscapes of Israel, 23–165. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33685-0_5.

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Brown, Steve. "Case studies." In Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Practice, 303–7. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315203119-32.

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Hong, Jacky, and Jorge Muniz. "Comparative Case Studies." In Cross-cultural Knowledge Management, 58–80. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003112136-4.

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Mickov, Biljana. "Case Studies." In The Cultural Sector and Sustainable Economic Development, 129–46. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003336648-10.

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Tiňo, Radko, Katarina Vizárová, František Krčma, Milena Reháková, Viera Jančovičová, and Zdenka Kozáková. "Case Studies." In Plasma Technology in the Preservation and Cleaning of Cultural Heritage Objects, 89–145. First edition. | Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2021]: CRC Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9780429277610-8.

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Bartelink, Eric J. "Death Along the Tracks: The Role of Forensic Anthropology and Social Media in a Homicide Investigation." In Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology, 3–11. Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2020]: CRC Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429436987-1.

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Fulginiti, Laura C., Kristen M. Hartnett-McCann, and Detective Frank Di Modica. "Sealed for Your Protection: A Triple Homicide Involving the Use of a Corrosive Agent to Obscure Identity." In Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology, 99–107. Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2020]: CRC Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429436987-10.

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Conference papers on the topic "Case studies in cultural anthropology"

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Bekakos, Sotirios. "Feasts and Ancient Greek Dance: Live Texts and Key Symbols." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.1-2.

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Feasts and ancient Greek dance are two key elements of the ancient world that can be studied in an anthropological perspective. These two elements are strictly connected in ancient Greek culture. In previous studies, I attempted to focus on the dialectal elements of the feast in Southern Italian romance and Greek dialects, to illustrate the persistence of the feast as linguistic and cultural elements that symbolize the memory of a community (Bekakos 2009, pp. 29–51). In this paper, feasts and ancient Greek dance are discussed as linguistic, social, and cultural phenomena, and as a case study, I chose the island of Salamina, near Piraeus, for its rich undiscovered ancient Greek cultural elements.
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Hadzantonis, Michael. "The Malaysian Wayang Kulit, the Malay Language, and their Anthropological shifts." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.4-3.

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This paper seeks to discuss and expose the correlations between a shifting Wayang Kulit puppet performance in Malaysia and the shifting Malay language over the past half century, that is, from the late 1960s until the present time. The Wayang exhibited a patent shift in its poetics, in its use and type of symbolisms, in its social, cultural and spiritual purpose, and in its representation of community. The paper determines ways in which the Malay language experienced change by observing government mandate to 'rehabilitate' the Malay people, and to employ discourses of rehabilitation so to alter the cultural industry in Malaysia, yet to the detriment of language, social cohesion, and cultural performance in Malaysia. For this the data consists of a multi year ethnography of the Wayang both inside and outside of Kuala Lumpur, cases studies of Wayang Kulit dalangs (puppeteers), observing and conducting Wayang Kulit performances, and documenting language diachronic change. Ultimately, the paper finds that owing to language planning and policy in Malaysia, both cultural performance and language, that is, the written, the standardized, and vernacular have seen significant shift over the past half century, and that these shifts have correlated with altered ideologies in Malaysia that align with intentions to commercialize the country and to increase the mercantile efficiency of the Malay and the Malaysian people.
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Kouzas, Georgios. "Aspects of Urban Ethnography in Greece, 1960-2020. The View from Folklore." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.3-1.

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This paper aims to describe urban folklore studies in Greece during the 20th century, through an ethnography of the field. I focus particularly on the 1950s and 1960s, because these decades were crucial for the field of urban folklore. Hundreds of thousands of internal migrants from various areas of Greece, and from outside of the country, have swarmed towards Greece’s major urban centres, thus spurring the gradual development of peculiar and at times incomplete urbanization. In this framework, we examine the significance of holistic research in urban space from a perspective of folkloristics, the significance of the ethnographic method introduced by Dimitrios Loukatos that influenced the field of urban folklore in Greece, and the relations of cooperation between folkloristics and social and cultural anthropology with regards to urban space. In addition to discussing the history of the science of folklore, I focus on research methodology and a framework of examining a context locally. More specifically, regarding research methodology, modern folklorists introduced the ‘ethnographic method’ of social phenomena research, i.e., examination through field ethnographic research at a particular space and time, and in this case, the urban center. This contribution was slightly significant as it differentiates folk research from the previous method based on lemmata, which examined phenomena within time and not contemporarily, in the present. Finally, we analyze the ethnographic method, a methodological approach which today is the most common approach in Greek folklore studies. This research methodology is predicated on the following; field research (participant observation, semi-structured questions, life narrations, focus groups, etc.), archival research, and literary testimonies under certain conditions, mainly at times when we refer to the urban folklore of the past. Here, we also act to support the opinion that an approach that is exclusively based on archival or literary material and that does not take into account field research is unilateral and not complete.
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Kataoka, Kuniyoshi. "Poetics through Body and Soul: A Plurimodal Approach." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.4-1.

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In this presentation, I will show that various multimodal resources—such as utterance, prosody, rhythm, schematic images, and bodily reactions—may integratively contribute to the holistic achievement of poeticity. By incorporating the ideas from “ethnopoetics” (Hymes 1981, 1996) and “gesture studies” (McNeill 1992, 2005), I will present a plurimodal analysis of naturally occurring interactions by highlighting the interplay among the verbal, nonverbal, and corporeal representations. With those observations, I confirm that poeticity is not a distinctive quality restricted to constructed poetry or “high” culture, but rather an endowment to any kind of natural discourse that is co-constructed by various semiotic resources. My claim specifically concerns a renewed interest in an ethnopoetic kata ‘form/ shape/ style/ model’ embraced as performative “habitus” among Japanese speakers (Kataoka 2012). Kata, in its broader sense, is stable as well as versatile, often serving as an organizational “template” for performance, which at opportune moments may change its shape and trajectory according to ongoing developments. In other words, preferred structures are not confined to an emergent management of performance, but should also incorporate culturally embedded practices with immediate (re)actions. In order to promote this claim, I explore a case in which mutually coordinated performance is extensively pursued for sharing sympathy and camaraderie. Such a kata-driven construction was typically observed in a highly involved, interactional interview about the Great East Japan Earthquake, in which both interviewer and interviewee were recursively oriented and attuned to the same rhythmic and organizational pattern consisting of an odd-number of kata. Based on these observations, I argue that indigenous principles of organizing discourse are as crucial as the mechanisms of conversational organization, with the higher-order, macro cultural preferences inevitably infiltrating into the micro management of spontaneous talk.
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Jackson, Jane, Cherry Chan Sin Yu, and Tongle Sun. "Language and (Inter)cultural Socialization in Study Abroad (SA) Contexts." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.17-4.

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Students who participate in a study abroad (SA) program are naturally exposed to new ‘ways of being’ (e.g., unfamiliar linguistic and cultural practices) and as they adjust to the host environment, they may experience acculturative stress and identity confusion (Jackson 2018, 2020). To better understand the challenges facing second language (L2) SA participants, applied linguists in various parts of the world are conducting introspective studies that seek to identify and make sense of factors that can influence L2 socialization and sojourn outcomes (e.g., language proficiency gains, intercultural competence development) (Iwasaki 2019; Jackson 2019). Their work is providing much-needed direction for pedagogical interventions in SA programs (e.g., pre-departure orientations, language and intercultural transition courses) (Jackson and Oguro 2018; Vande Berg, Paige and Lou 2012). This, in turn, is helping institutions of higher education to realize some of their internationalization goals (e.g., the enhancement of language and intercultural development). After explaining contemporary notions of L2 socialization/acculturation and poststructuralist perspectives on identity, this colloquium presented the key findings of three mixed-method, largely qualitative, longitudinal studies that investigated the L2 socialization and identity reconstruction of participants in various short-term SA programs.
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Ghosh, Sanjukta. "Pragmatics of Translating Tourism Texts: A Case of Spiritual Tourism in India." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2022.7-6.

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English texts are often deliberately enveloped with mysticism to arouse curiosity of the foreign tourists, whereas the Hindi texts remind the readers about the religious and cultural heritage. The culture-specific terms related to these places have not been translated successfully in the English texts, which provide the readers a half-baked spiritual and cultural view of the places. This paper analyzes and compares the English and Hindi texts describing and promoting two significant religious and spiritual tourist places of Uttar Pradesh, India, viz., Mathura-Vrindavan and Varanasi, by taking data from the website of UP tourism department. I compare the speech act strategies and presuppositions of the texts, and find a significant difference in the strategy taken for persuading the tourists in these two languages as well as in the pragmatic presuppositions associated with the texts.
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Dondelewski, Bartosz. "Language Ideology and Language Preservation. Case of A Fala de Xálima (Cáceres, Spain)." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.6-1.

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The object of this paper is a discussion of the A Fala de Xálima geolect, belonging to the Galician-Portuguese language family. The language is spoken by approximately 5000 (bilingual) people who live at the Spanish-Portuguese border (Costas González 2013). It is a minoritized geolect barely recognized by the state, without any overt signs of sociolinguistic prestige (e.g., official orthography) and with some disappearing vernacular forms and a diminishing number of young natives (Ramallo 2011). I focus on a particular group of A Fala speakers, framed as a community of practice (Rampton 2009; Meyerhoff and Strycharz 2013). The practice which significantly contributes to the community is the common work for the preservation of A Fala. Its members have the social prestige and the abilities to decide on the future of their language. In this paper, informed by the ontological-epistemological principles of socio-cultural linguistics (Bucholtz and Hall 2004 2010), I look into some indexical interactional and essentialist orientations which assist in the grasping of the relation between an observed practice and an underlying language ideology. I ground my analysis in a theory of language ideology, and hence work by Irvine and Gal (2000), and in work concerning sociocultural beliefs of language in indexical iconizations (Carr 2011; Silverstein 2003). The empirical material I present comprises anthropological observations and a 10-hour long semi-directed, transcribed set of interviews with members of the A Fala language community of practice, conducted in situ by myself. In the interviews, we discussed such issues as language preservation and promotion, as well as stance toward researchers interested in the A Fala language and other linguistic minorities in Spain.
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Kholboboeva, Aziza Sherboboevna. "The Theoretical View of Advertising Discourse." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.1-13.

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The article discusses the textual features of advertising. Recently, along with the continuing interest in advertising practice, more and more attention has been paid to the theoretical aspects of advertising, through fields such as linguistics, psychology, sociology, psycho and sociolinguistics, semiotics, cultural studies, and art history. This article presents a theoretical interpretation of advertising discourse in modern Uzbekistan. I consider the linguistic aspect, and the concept of a text as topical issues. The theoretical basis of the research is work on the theory of discourse and communicative interaction, and work that justifies an anthropocentric approach to a language in general and its categories in particular.
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van den Bosch, Antal. "Words matter: Case studies in Cultural AI." In SETN 2022: 12th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3549737.3549742.

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Giovannacci, D., D. Martos-Levif, G. C. Walker, M. Menu, and V. Detalle. "Terahertz applications in cultural heritage: case studies." In Fundamentals of Laser Assisted Micro- and Nanotechnologies 2013, edited by Vadim P. Veiko and Tigran A. Vartanyan. SPIE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2049818.

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Reports on the topic "Case studies in cultural anthropology"

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Yaremchuk, Olesya. TRAVEL ANTHROPOLOGY IN JOURNALISM: HISTORY AND PRACTICAL METHODS. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.49.11069.

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Our study’s main object is travel anthropology, the branch of science that studies the history and nature of man, socio-cultural space, social relations, and structures by gathering information during short and long journeys. The publication aims to research the theoretical foundations and genesis of travel anthropology, outline its fundamental principles, and highlight interaction with related sciences. The article’s defining objectives are the analysis of the synthesis of fundamental research approaches in travel anthropology and their implementation in journalism. When we analyze what methods are used by modern authors, also called «cultural observers», we can return to the localization strategy, namely the centering of the culture around a particular place, village, or another spatial object. It is about the participants-observers and how the workplace is limited in space and time and the broader concept of fieldwork. Some disciplinary practices are confused with today’s complex, interactive cultural conjunctures, leading us to think of a laboratory of controlled observations. Indeed, disciplinary approaches have changed since Malinowski’s time. Based on the experience of fieldwork of Svitlana Aleksievich, Katarzyna Kwiatkowska-Moskalewicz, or Malgorzata Reimer, we can conclude that in modern journalism, where the tools of travel anthropology are used, the practical methods of complexity, reflexivity, principles of openness, and semiotics are decisive. Their authors implement both for stable localization and for a prevailing transition.
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Garwood, Anna. Network for Biodigesters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Case Studies and Future Recommendations. Inter-American Development Bank, December 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0008830.

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As a result of renewed regional interest in biogas technology, the Network for Biodigesters in Latin America and the Caribbean (RedBioLAC) was formed to increase dialogue concerning: a) Promotion and management of biogas projects; and b) Innovations in the field. The network has exemplified the productivity of having a forum of opportunities to tackle and share valuable innovations in materials, marketing, and approach to a project's management and finances. Currently, RedBioLAC is building momentum by beginning development of a web-based project information sharing and management platform. This document aims to provide a snapshot of the current reality and synthesize conclusions on the economic, institutional, cultural, and technical factors that need to be addressed. Finally, the emerging RedBioLAC is presented as a forum for exchanging experience and strengthening biodigester programs in Latin America.
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Dodson, Giles. Advancing Local Marine Protection, Cross Cultural Collaboration and Dialogue in Northland. Unitec ePress, January 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.34074/rsrp.12015.

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This research report summarises findings and observations arising from the Advancing marine protection through cross-cultural dialogue project, which examines community-driven, collaborative marine protection campaigns currently being pursued in Northland. This project consists of a series of case studies undertaken between 2012–2014 and draws on data obtained from archival research, semistructured interviews with campaign participants, and published documents. The aims of these case studies have been to compare different approaches taken towards marine protection in Northland and to understand the composition of effective marine protection campaigns, within the context of collaborative approaches to environmental management and the communicative processes underpinning these engagements. The report provides a number of insights into how contemporary marine protection campaigns have been developed and the place of cross-cultural (Māori – non-Māori) collaboration and communication within these processes.
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Dodson, Giles. Advancing Local Marine Protection, Cross Cultural Collaboration and Dialogue in Northland. Unitec ePress, January 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.34074/rsrp.12015.

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This research report summarises findings and observations arising from the Advancing marine protection through cross-cultural dialogue project, which examines community-driven, collaborative marine protection campaigns currently being pursued in Northland. This project consists of a series of case studies undertaken between 2012–2014 and draws on data obtained from archival research, semistructured interviews with campaign participants, and published documents. The aims of these case studies have been to compare different approaches taken towards marine protection in Northland and to understand the composition of effective marine protection campaigns, within the context of collaborative approaches to environmental management and the communicative processes underpinning these engagements. The report provides a number of insights into how contemporary marine protection campaigns have been developed and the place of cross-cultural (Māori – non-Māori) collaboration and communication within these processes.
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Dodson, Giles. Advancing Local Marine Protection, Cross Cultural Collaboration and Dialogue in Northland. Unitec ePress, January 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.34074/rsrp.12015.

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This research report summarises findings and observations arising from the Advancing marine protection through cross-cultural dialogue project, which examines community-driven, collaborative marine protection campaigns currently being pursued in Northland. This project consists of a series of case studies undertaken between 2012–2014 and draws on data obtained from archival research, semistructured interviews with campaign participants, and published documents. The aims of these case studies have been to compare different approaches taken towards marine protection in Northland and to understand the composition of effective marine protection campaigns, within the context of collaborative approaches to environmental management and the communicative processes underpinning these engagements. The report provides a number of insights into how contemporary marine protection campaigns have been developed and the place of cross-cultural (Māori – non-Māori) collaboration and communication within these processes.
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Brison, Jeffrey, Sarah Smith, Elyse Bell, Antoine Devroede, Simge Erdogan, Christina Fabiani, Kyle Hammer, et al. The Global Engagement of Museums in Canada. University of Western Ontario, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5206/vdjm2980.

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The Global Engagement of Museums in Canada examines Canadian museum diplomacy, assessing the international activities of Canadian museums to consider the ways these institutions act as cultural diplomats on the global stage. The report presents the results of a multi-partner collaborative research project addressing the work of ten institutions, including the Art Gallery of Alberta; Aga Khan Museum; Canadian Museum of History; Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Museum of Anthropology at UBC; National Gallery of Canada; Ottawa Art Gallery; Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Archaeology and History Complex; and the Royal Ontario Museum. Focusing on the period of 2009 to 2019, this report highlights new activities and methods within museum practice, while also grounding these within the context of developments in the last decade. Drawing on archival research, document analysis, and interviews with museum professionals, this research establishes baseline data on the global reach of Canadian museums and identifies best practices to share with the museum sector and cultural diplomacy community. Comprised of three sections, the report begins by presenting the framework for the project, explaining the logic behind the selection of institutions and the pedagogical considerations that informed our collective methodology. Second, the report provides a review of the literature in the field of cultural diplomacy, situating the research project. And third, the core of the project, are ten studies of specific institutions, drawn from the fieldwork conducted by the team. These institutional reports demonstrate the ways in which museums engage with a range of global activities and actors. They further address developing trends in the sector, while also suggesting future avenues for research. The Global Engagement of Museums in Canada is a research project led by Primary Investigators Jeffrey Brison and Sarah E.K. Smith. Funded by a Mitacs Accelerate Grant, the initiative is a collaboration between the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Queen’s University.
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Anzillotti Zamorano, Marta. ECMI Minorities Blog. The Cultural Appropriation of Flamenco: Views of Gitanos from Jerez de la Frontera. European Centre for Minority Issues, May 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.53779/aapl9656.

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With discussions surrounding cultural appropriation ongoing in numerous spheres including music, fashion, and language, this blogpost explores the ever-changing nature of culture through the first-hand accounts of Gitanos from Jerez de la Frontera. The presence of the Gitano minority in Jerez has historically had – and continues to have – a significant impact on the city. This is especially true regarding flamenco, an artform encompassing centuries of history and culture. In this blogpost, the author uses interviews and a survey conducted for her MA thesis, as well as two case studies (namely that of Lola Flores and Rosalía), to explore the various ways of approaching and contextualizing theoretical understandings of cultural appropriation.
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Torres-Mancera, Rocio, Carlos de las Heras-Pedrosa, Carmen Jambrino-Maldonado, and Patricia P. Iglesias-Sanchez. Public Relations and the Fundraising professional in the Cultural Heritage Industry: a study of Spain and Mexico / Las relaciones públicas y el profesional de la captación de fondos en la industria del patrimonio cultural: un estudio de España y México. Revista Internacional de Relaciones Públicas, June 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5783/rirp-21-2021-03-27-48.

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The present research aims to understand the current situation of strategic communication and public relations applied in the professional field of fundraising in the cultural heritage environment. It observes the current patterns used in the sector to obtain and generate long-term sustainable funding, through the stimulation of investors and International Cooperation projects from the European Union in line with UNESCO. Two international case studies are compared: Spain and Mexico, through the selection of territorial samples in Malaga and San Luis Potosi. The methodology used is based on a combination of in-depth interviews with key informants and content analysis. In the first instance, the degree of application of communication and public relations tools for strategic purposes to directly attract economic resources to the management of cultural heritage (tangible and intangible) in the region is studied. In line with the results obtained, the current parameters and key indicators of the profile of the fundraising professional in public and private cultural management are presented.
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Choi, Jinho. Agile Working Styles for Productivity. Asian Productivity Organization, June 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.61145/ilbt9334.

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This publication explores Agile implementations across various economies, shedding light on successful practices and challenges. This study underscores the significance of supportive strategies and cultural shifts in nurturing Agile environments. Drawing from case studies spanning Bangladesh to Turkiye, it pinpoints essential success factors and offers policy recommendations. With a focus on adaptability and technology integration, it presents actionable insights for organizations seeking to boost productivity. Additionally, the research advocates for further comparative studies to enhance Agile practices globally, transcending beyond APO member economies.
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Adams, Sophie, Lisa Diamond, Tara Esterl, Peter Fröhlich, Rishabh Ghotge, Regina Hemm, Ida Marie Henriksen, et al. Social License to Automate: Emerging Approaches to Demand Side Management. IEA User-Centred Energy Systems Technology Collaboration Programme, October 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.47568/4xr122.

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The Social License to Automate Task has investigated the social dimensions of user engagement with automated technologies in energy systems to understand how end-user trust to automate is built and maintained in different jurisdictions and cultural settings. The rapid uptake of renewable energy systems will require new automated technologies to balance energy supplies. Some developers are looking to locate these in households where energy is being used. This saves moving the energy from centralised generation sites (remote hydro, solar or wind). This report details the findings from a 2 year project with 16 researchers in 6 countries, 26 Case studies spanning electric vehicles, home and precinct batteries, air conditioners and other heat pumps.
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